Re: [gentoo-amd64] [OT] AGPART

[Jeffrey Gardner <je_fro@gentoo.org>]

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Daniel Iliev wrote:
> Hi, guys
> 
> I have an NForce based motherboard with an integrated
> [ surprise! ] :) NVidia PCI-X videocard. So, I don't need the agpart
> driver for my kernel, right? The problem is that I can't switch it off:
> 
> 
>> Linux Kernel v2.6.20-gentoo-r7 Configuration
>> 	Device Drivers
>> 		Character devices
>> 			 --- /dev/agpgart (AGP Support)
> 
> 
> The help says:
> 
>> Selected by: IOMMU && PCI || FB_I810 && FB && EXPERIMENTAL && PCI &&
>> X86_32 || FB_INTEL && FB && EXPERIMENTAL && PCI && X86
> 
> 
> My questions:
> - Is it normal?
> - Should I disable it (how)? 

General setup
[*] Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)  --->
[*]   Enable 16-bit UID system calls

                                     [*]   Sysctl syscall support


   [*]   Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops

                                        [ ]     Do an extra kallsyms
pass

           [*]   Support for hot-pluggable devices

                                                  [*]   Enable support
for printk

                [*]   BUG() support

                                                      [*]   Enable ELF
core dumps

                      [*]   Enable full-sized data structures for core

                                                             [*]
Enable futex support

                                 [*]   Enable eventpoll support


[*]   Use full shmem filesystem

                                       [*]   Enable VM event counters
for /proc/vmstat

Processor type and features
[ ] IOMMU support

Then you can disable agpgart

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Jeffrey Gardner
Gentoo Developer
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